Dear colleague, SILKNOW is a EU-funded research project that tries to improve the knowledge of silk heritage through digital technologies. Part of our goals are the dissemination of open access culture among textile and fashion heritage organizations. For more information, check http://silknow.eu/ <http://silknow.eu/>
We are preparing a compendium of best practices for the cataloging of textiles, and related digital data management. To this end, we have organized a workshop where heritage professionals are invited to share the challenges they face when inventorying and cataloging their textile holdings, and when sharing openly that information. It will take place on Tuesday, 6th of April, from 3pm to 6pm CET. (A first call was disseminated in February but the event had to be postponed.) PROGRAMME 3.00 to 4.30 pm CET: From museum documentation to digital data curation. Focusing on the transition from analogue information to digital data management, i.e., how textile collections are being inventoried and cataloged. 4.30 to 6.00 pm CET: Challenges and opportunities for open access. Interoperability, semantic web tools, licenses and institutional requirements. We ask you to confirm your attendance at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. If possible, we also ask you to complete this short questionnaire, which will help us prepare the workshop sessions: https://forms.gle/CAEYBZKFBYuRw1rg8 <https://forms.gle/CAEYBZKFBYuRw1rg8> It is not necessary to answer to it before attending the workshop, but we would appreciate it a lot. SILKNOW has already made public several outcomes: (https://silknow.eu/index.php/our-results/ <https://silknow.eu/index.php/our-results/>) A virtual loom that serves as a digital memory of historical weaving techniques. Thanks to its 3D visualization it shows the warp and weft in depth. A specialized multilingual thesaurus in silk with more than 800 terms on techniques, materials, machinery, motifs, among others, available in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish and Italian). An exploratory search engine and a space-time map with about 40,000 records from different museums. Kind regards, MA. Mar Gaitán PhD Candidate Universitat de València Mar Gaitán Research Assistant Art History Department. Universitat de València + 34 9639 83413 [email protected] http://silknow.eu/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: [email protected] To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://lists.mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
